blaque and geauxld

Hello distant reader. Spare time has been almost completely gobbled up, and with it social media silence, but that does imply that things have been stagnant and still. In fact, so much the opposite. Our beloved New Orleans, Saints have been defying the laws of physics and football science. The curse has been lifted for a time, and our star is finally shining. Also, I am in the process of buying a house. Our little organism is undergoing telophase, but will continue to live strong in an extended permutation. Cord just turned 30 on Halloween, and we celebrated the event with a show at The Know down the street. Here are some pictures:

Also, we have studio time booked in January and hope to record 6 or so songs in a proper environment. We’ll hopefully be 1 million times less lazy about finishing it when both money and someone other than ourselves is involved. We’re looking forward to it.

-Byron

A Brief Journey Through Time and Space

Sunday Night Air War gets to share the stage with TWO awesome Touring Bands: BURY MY TEETH from Chicago && WAH WAH EXIT WOUND from Seattle!

We played with WWEW back in March, and these guys blew our minds in. Serious POWER Trio (and at the time we saw them, very recently-pared from a foursome) that conjured some serious metal~prog~psych~spazzjazz feelings, and then melted that ish all over our thirdeye. Check a couple of excerpts bee low — the second one is FIYA:

Bury My Teeth promise to be something special too, so this is something you’d be better off not missing, if you’re not into missing things that will rock your spleen inside out! A perfect PDX Popnow après fête digestion aide! SUNDAY JULY 27th DUCKETT’S // 825 N. KILLINGSWORTH (near Albina intersection)

999pm

It will be worth Monday

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c.

Let’s see if this works

Here are directions to the house show venue for this Saturday, as posted on their Myspace page:

Check out their Myspace page here: www.myspace.com/takeyoutothebloodbank

Saturday, brah.

Kill Screen

The Air War blog has been asleep…

IRL we’re writing songs, and have a couple of shows coming up [more on that below] but the three of us are all busy with jobs, peeps, projects and other jams generally.

Don’t worry:

We Still <3 Air War, and We <3 <3 <3 You

OK

SO

Saturday Night:

AND

New Songs Probably

AND AND

Comeuppance

/c

new things

I realized that as our blogging has slowed down a bit, when we do blog, it’s typically to tell everyone ‘Hey, come to our show’. That’s not really particularly exciting to read, so I thought I’d give a brief photo blog about what’s new in the Air World. Ouch. Bad pun. Anyway, the list is as follows:

new electronics projects (and the associated Solar Hits)

our neighbors (Portland rock-scene veterans) had a baby

Greg is experimenting with new kombucha flavors

we put new trippy lights in the practice space

we got some cool tapes

we've purchased several new Fender musical instruments

the roses are blooming EVERYWHERE...it's awesome!

That pretty much sums it up, unless Cord or Greg have more to add.

-Byron-

I hear bicycles in the streets

Greetings. We haven’t been keeping up in the blogosphere much, so I thought I’d write a few lines, even though I really should be sleeping. Gotta make that chedda, ya know? Oh no, my rap slang is a bit dated. Must mean I’m getting old.

The creative fount has been spurting all over the practice room lately, and we’ve been writing weird and neat songs that tickle my brain. It seems that the ideas have been flowing freely, and it’s best to just run with it.

At the house show we recently played, we passed out bits of paper and pens to see if the audience could come up with some lyrics to one of our new songs. The experiment half worked. We may need to revise our technique a little, but it’s got potential. I was thinking about maybe adding a Javascript form on our website that would allow random creeps on the internet to submit lyrical ideas. It might work. We’re bad at audience participation or even interaction, so this may be a nice computer nerd alternative. Maybe we could get super meta and write lyrics about people helpings write lyrics. No…too abstract.

Regardless, we’ve got more upcoming songs than shows this summer. I guess we should try to put more effort into that. If anyone needs 3 awkward dudes to thrash around in odd time signatures while ignoring their surroundings, we might be able to help you with that. Let us know.

ZOMBIE HOUSE SHOW – Friday 5.22.09

Hi. Hey um…we haven’t blogged in a month or so. Oops. Sorry about that. It’s because it’s been SUNNY a whole lot lately. sunny>blogging. That’s just one of those imho things though. Anyway, something even better than sun and blogging is playing rock and roll shows, which we aim to do this Friday. We’ll be playing a house show with a few other bands, some touring and some local. The address is 4209 SE 63rd, Portland, OR, and if I were to going to ask the internet to draw me a map of how to get there, it would probably look something like this:

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I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t know the names of those other bands we’re playing with. That’s my bad. It’s gonna be really fun though, I promise. You should totally go. We should start playing our music at 9:00. Don’t be late!

Keep It \M/ing

We’ve been lazy bloggers lately, but not lazy rockers. New songs are cooking, shows are serious, and we’re not even watching that much TV. And anyway — Sunny Excursions & Air Gardens beckon.

Come to The Know on Thursday: It’s free, early and the weather will probably be less amazing than it is right now.

As per yesterday’s discussion of unicorns:

THX /C

Show Thursday Night

Last minute, at Roscoe’s 8105 SE Stark

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Starting around 9:30

with

Mr Frederick Kill Hollywood & Tyler M. King

Post-Practice Popeyes

It’s about that time…
Greg’s fryin Plantains.
Me n B got somatha plans.
New songs comin’
Frozen Future
Diamonds
Couillion

-c